About Jendayi
Jendayi Ford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 11 years of experience helping people manage life’s hard moments. She focuses on practical skills that make daily life easier. Her style is direct and compassionate.
She listens first, then offers strategies that fit each person. Her sessions often center on reducing stress and anxiety and improving mood. She helps people cope with grief, trauma, addiction concerns, and the strain that caregiving can bring.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy issues are also part of her work, as are challenges related to identity and discrimination. Clients can expect straightforward tools from approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness. She uses motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons for change.
Narrative and solution-focused methods are also part of her toolbox to rewrite unhelpful stories and set clear goals. In sessions she focuses on small, doable steps. That might mean building routines, changing unhelpful thinking, or practicing brief skills between meetings.
Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people can see what’s working. She practices in California and works in English. Her background includes supporting those facing aging and geriatric concerns, post-traumatic stress, and multicultural stresses.
The work is collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.
Therapeutic approaches and how they fit online
Jendayi commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with practical alternatives. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it links thinking patterns to everyday actions.She also draws on mindfulness therapy, which trains simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus. Mindfulness can help with overwhelming emotions, ADHD-related distractibility, and coping during stressful moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist reviews goals and preferences and adjusts methods as needed, collaborating on what to try and checking in about progress each week.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this style of work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited or when a quick check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief coaching, tracking small steps, and following up between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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